A team of British surgeons has carried out Gaza’s（加沙）first organ transplants for a long-term plan to train local medical staff to perform the operations.
Two patients underwent kidney（肾脏）transplants at the Shifa, Gaza’s biggest public hospital. The operations were conducted a fortnight ago by a volunteer medical team from the Royal Liverpool hospital.
Ziad Matouk, 42, was born with one kidney and was diagnosed with renal failure（肾衰竭）several years ago. Matouk, whose wife donated one of her kidneys, hopes to return to his job within six months. The couple had sought a transplant in Cairo, but were rejected as unsuitable at a state hospital and could not afford the fee at a private hospital. “We were desperate,” said Matouk.
The UK-Gaza link-up began about a year ago after Abdelkader Hammad, a doctor at the Royal Liverpool hospital, was contacted by an anaesthetist（麻醉师）at the Shifa, who outlined the difficulties the Gaza hospital was facing with dialysis（透析）. The Shifa is forced to rely on generators because of power cuts; spare parts for its ageing dialysis machines have been difficult to import; and supplies of consumables are often scarce. After an exploratory trip last April, Hammad---whose family is Palestinian---and three colleagues from Liverpool arrived in Gaza via Egypt last month, bringing specialist equipment. Two patients were selected for surgery. The first, Mohammed Duhair, 42, received a kidney donated by his younger brother in a six-hour operation. Two days later, Matouk received a transplant after his wife, Nadia, 36, was found to be a good match. The surgeon was carried out by the British team, assisted by doctors and nurses from the Shifa. “We are very satisfied with the results,” said Sobbi Skaik, head of surgery at the Gaza hospital.
Skaik hopes that Gaza medical teams will eventually carry out kidney transplants independently, and that other organ transplants may follow. The Shifa is working with the Gaza ministry of health on a plan to train its doctors, surgeons, nursing staff and laboratory technicians in transplant surgery at the Royal Liverpool. “Funding is a problem,” said Hammad. “In the meantime we’ll go back as volunteers to Gaza for the next couple of years to do more transplants.” The Liverpool team’s next visit is scheduled for May.
1.What effect does Gaza’s first organ transplants hopes to get?
A. Helping poor Gaza people to regain health to make more money.
B. Releasing Gaza hospitals’ pressure of lack of professional doctors.
C. Assisting the Royal Liverpool hospital in perfecting their operations.
D. Calling for international attention at Gaza’s poor medical service.
2.Why did the state hospital refuse to practice surgeon for Ziad Matouk?
A. Because he couldn’t afford the fee at a public hospital.
B. Because the hospital didn’t accept dangerous patients.
C. Because they couldn’t find a matched organ.
D. Because his condition was untreatable.
3.What is the beginning of the cooperation between the Royal Liverpool hospital and Gaza?
A. A UK doctor contacted Gaza hospital.
B. The Shifa imported medical machines from UK.
C. Ziad Matouk’s condition seemed to get worse.
D. A Shifa doctor turned to Royal Liverpool hospital for help.
4.What did Dr. Hammad and his team do recently?
A. They had an exploratory trip in Egypt last April.
B.
They carried out surgeries to test Gaza’s medical equipment.
C. They carried out two transplant surgeries in Gaza.
D. They sought assistance from the hospital of the Shifa.
It was Thanksgiving morning. I was busy preparing the traditional Thanksgiving turkey when the doorbell rang. I opened the front door and saw two small children in rags huddling together on the top step.
“Any old papers, lady?” asked one of them.
I was busy. I wanted to say “no” until I looked down at their feet. They were wearing thin little sandals （凉鞋）, wet with heavy snow.
“Come in and I’ll make you a cup of hot cocoa.”
They walked over and sat down at the table. Their wet sandals left marks upon the floor. I saved them cocoa and bread to fight against the cold outside. Then I went back to the kitchen and started cooking.
The silence in the front room struck me. I looked in. The girl held the empty cup in her hands, looking at it. The boy asked in a flat voice, “Lady, are you rich?”
“Am I rich? Pity, no!”
I looked at my worn-out slipcovers （椅套）. The girl put her cup back in its saucer （茶碟）carefully and said, “Your cups match your saucers.” They left after that, holding their papers against the wind. They had reminded me that I had so much for which to be grateful.
Plain blue china cups and saucers were only worth five pence. But they matched.
I tasted the potatoes and stirred the meat soup. Potatoes and brown meat soup, a roof over our heads, my man with a regular job, these matched, too.
I moved the chairs back from the fire and cleaned the living room. The muddy marks of little sandals were still wet upon my floor. Let them be for a while, I thought, just in case I should begin to forget how rich I am.
1.The writer let the two children come in and served them well because ______.
A. she wanted to sell old papers to them
B. she wanted to give them some presents
C. she showed great pity and care on them
D. she wanted to show her thanks to them
2.The writer left the muddy marks of little sandals on the floor for a while to _______.
A. show that she was a kind-hearted lady
B. remind her she shouldn’t forget how rich she was
C. leave room for readers to think about what being rich is
D. call up her memories of the good old days
3.It can be inferred from the text that whether you are rich depends on _______.
A. how much money you have made
B. what attitude you have had toward life
C. the way you help others
D. your social relationship
I sat with my friend in a well-known coffee shop in a neighboring town of Venice. As we our coffee, a man came in and sat at a(n) table beside us. He called the waiter and placed his saying, “Two cups of coffee, one of them there on the wall”. We this order with rather interest and observed that he was with one cup of coffee but he paid for two. As soon as he left, the waiter a piece of paper on the wall saying “A Cup of Coffee”.
While we were still there, two other men and ordered three cups of coffee, two on the table and one on the wall. They had two cups of coffee but for three and left. This time also, the did the same; he put up a piece of paper on the wall saying, “A cup of coffee.” It seemed that this gesture was a at this place. , it was something unique and puzzling for us. Since we had to do with the matter, we our coffee, paid the bill and left.
After a few days, we again had a(n) to go to this coffee shop. While we were enjoying our coffee, a man walked in. The way this man was dressed did not the standard nor the atmosphere of this coffee shop. Poverty was from the looks on his face. he seated himself, he looked at the wall and said, “One cup of coffee from the .” The waiter served coffee to this man with and dignity. The man had his coffee and left without paying. We were amazed to watch all this when the waiter a piece of paper from the wall and threw it into the dustbin.
1.A. enjoyedB. preparedC. practicedD. bought
2.A. crowdedB. openC. emptyD. beautiful
3.A. foodB. goodsC. tableD. order
4.A. heardB. foundC. glaredD. watched
5.A. satisfiedB. servedC. treatedD. awarded
6.A. stuck outB. hid awayC. put upD. took out
7.A. dashedB. movedC. fledD. entered
8.A. paidB. lookedC. waitedD. asked
9.A. customerB. waiterC. strangerD. passenger
10.A. demandB. signalC. customD. duty
11.A. InsteadB. ThereforeC. MoreoverD. However
12.A. nothingB. somethingC. anythingD. everything
13.A. wastedB. finishedC. missedD. donated
14.A. invitationB. timeC. rewardD. chance
15.A. equalB. changeC. matchD. reach
16.A. obviousB. slightC. seriousD. strong
17.A. SoB. AsC. Unless D. Since
18.A. windowB. floorC. wallD. door
19.A. carelessnessB. wisdomC. interestD. respect
20.A. brought downB. took offC. kept awayD. cut off
It’s crazy of you to spend more time playing computer games than you _______ studying.
A. are B. have C. do D. will
--Do you think you can finish the project by five o’clock this afternoon?
---_______. I’ll be busy with my term paper all day.
A. Not a little B. Not a chance
C. Not a bit D. Not to mention it
This hotel is the highest building in the city, from _______ top you can enjoy a good view of our city.
A. which B. its C. that D. whose
